Linked Death—Representing, Publishing, and Using Second World War Death Records as Linked Open Data

Mikko Koho; Eero Hyvönen; Erkki Heino; Jouni Tuominen; Petri Leskinen; Eetu Mäkelä

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70407-4_45

Linked Death—Representing, Publishing, and Using Second World War Death Records as Linked Open Data

Mikko Koho, Eero Hyvönen, Erkki Heino, Jouni Tuominen, Petri Leskinen, Eetu Mäkelä

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War history of the Second World War (WW2), humankind’s largest disaster, is of great interest to both laymen and researchers. Most of us have ancestors and relatives who participated in the war, and in the worst case got killed. Researchers are eager to find out what actually happened then, and even more importantly why, so that future wars could perhaps be prevented. The darkest data of war history are casualty records—from such data we could perhaps learn most about the war. This paper presents a model and system for representing death records as linked data, so that (1) citizens could find out more easily what happened to their relatives during WW2 and (2) digital humanities (DH) researchers could (re)use the data easily for research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Semantic Web
Subtitle of host publication	ESWC 2017 Satellite Events: ESWC 2017 Satellite Events, Portorož, Slovenia, May 28 – June 1, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Eva Blomqvist, Katja Hose, Heiko Paulheim, Agnieszka Ławrynowicz, Fabio Ciravegna, Olaf Hartig
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	SPRINGER
Pages	369-383
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-70407-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-70406-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70407-4_45
Publication status	Published - 2017
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	Extended Semantic Web Conference - Portoroz, Slovenia Duration: 28 May 2017 → 2 Jun 2017 Conference number: 14

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	10577
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	Extended Semantic Web Conference
Abbreviated title	ESWC
Country/Territory	Slovenia
City	Portoroz
Period	28/05/2017 → 02/06/2017

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Koho, M. (Creator), Heino, E. (Creator), Ikkala, E. (Creator), Tamper, M. (Creator), Leskinen, P. (Creator), Dutruit, J. (Creator), Hyvönen, E. (Supervisor), Tuominen, J. (Supervisor), Mäkelä, E. (Supervisor) & Apajalahti, K. (Creator), 27 Nov 2015
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3431121, http://www.ldf.fi/dataset/warsa and 4 more links, http://ldf.fi/warsa/sparql, https://www.sotasampo.fi/en/, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3431121, https://zenodo.org/api/records/3611322 (show fewer)
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Koho, M., Hyvönen, E., Heino, E., Tuominen, J., Leskinen, P., & Mäkelä, E. (2017). Linked Death—Representing, Publishing, and Using Second World War Death Records as Linked Open Data. In E. Blomqvist, K. Hose, H. Paulheim, A. Ławrynowicz, F. Ciravegna, & O. Hartig (Eds.), The Semantic Web: ESWC 2017 Satellite Events: ESWC 2017 Satellite Events, Portorož, Slovenia, May 28 – June 1, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 369-383). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10577). SPRINGER. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70407-4_45

Koho, Mikko ; Hyvönen, Eero ; Heino, Erkki et al. / Linked Death—Representing, Publishing, and Using Second World War Death Records as Linked Open Data. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2017 Satellite Events: ESWC 2017 Satellite Events, Portorož, Slovenia, May 28 – June 1, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Eva Blomqvist ; Katja Hose ; Heiko Paulheim ; Agnieszka Ławrynowicz ; Fabio Ciravegna ; Olaf Hartig. Cham : SPRINGER, 2017. pp. 369-383 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Koho, M , Hyvönen, E, Heino, E, Tuominen, J , Leskinen, P & Mäkelä, E 2017, Linked Death—Representing, Publishing, and Using Second World War Death Records as Linked Open Data. in E Blomqvist, K Hose, H Paulheim, A Ławrynowicz, F Ciravegna & O Hartig (eds), The Semantic Web: ESWC 2017 Satellite Events: ESWC 2017 Satellite Events, Portorož, Slovenia, May 28 – June 1, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10577, SPRINGER, Cham, pp. 369-383, Extended Semantic Web Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia, 28/05/2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70407-4_45

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The Semantic Web: ESWC 2017 Satellite Events: ESWC 2017 Satellite Events, Portorož, Slovenia, May 28 – June 1, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Eva Blomqvist; Katja Hose; Heiko Paulheim; Agnieszka Ławrynowicz; Fabio Ciravegna; Olaf Hartig. Cham : SPRINGER, 2017. p. 369-383 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10577).

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